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Summer was absolutely wonderful. I know I saw many of you at NASC (http://www.nasc.us/s_nasc/index.asp) in Texas which was amazing. Trent and Myles (in the picture) were wonderful to work with and they did a great job hosting the conference. This year I had the opportunity to be a “Spotlight Speaker” and I met Josh Sunquist who is a great speaker and young man.
This summer I also traveled to major university across the nation (Harvard, Stanford, George Washington University and UCLA) to speak with amazing student ambassadors with People to People (http://www.studentambassadors.org) They have a wonderful program and dedicated teachers that work with them.
Finally I am off to Africa for a 10 day volunteer trip with Orphans in Kenya and a Safari. I have a friend who runs leadership camps in under developed countries and I have wanted to go for a few years. We are going to work with teen orphans and teach them basic skills for personal success. www.visionsforthefuture.org is the group that I am going with and we leave in just 2 days.
As for my 2008-2009 school year goals, one of my big goals is to use this BLOG a little bit more.
For the first week of school a great activity to try is Group Link!
Have your class stand in a circle and the first person shares about himself/herself for 10 seconds. Once he/she says something that connects with another student they link on at that place in the cirlce and start to share. For example, on student says, “I have 4 brothers, I play soccer, I like to eat ice cream, I am a gamer. I like to play WII and I also play the guitar.” Another student plays the guitar and yells LINK out loud and links arm and stands next to the person sharing. He/she begin by sharing the link and continues on, “I too play the guitar, I grew up in NYC…etc” It is easy, fun and pretty low risk.
Until next time…have a great first week of school.
